I enjoyed this episode of the New Tech City podcast about the case for boredom: It's a part of their Bored and Brilliant project, which attempts to encourage us to spend more time stewing in our own mental juices. The argument is that we spend too much of
Andrew Sullivan, the veteran political blogger, is quitting. As Ezra Klein at Vox noted: The blogosphere lives. But Sullivan's decision to hang up his keyboard is nevertheless a marker. Sullivan was the closest we had to someone trying to run a blog with real scale. He was trying
Today: it's time for a walk around the lake.
As of this evening.
Now replaced.
One of the first conversations I had when I moved to California was with Kaliya, about alternative models of ownership for startups. I know it's something that's come up at events like Future of Money, and it's interesting to see it emerge in USV&
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Known moved out of our office on Friday. For now, we're a remote team. This is my vantage point at my desk, with three monitor screens, a broadcast-quality mic and all the tea I can drink. #ben #homeoffice
Aaron Chimbel, over on PBS MediaShift: At most universities, students are required to take English composition courses, and at many others speech and/or foreign language classes are also required. Yet in the debate about teaching code in journalism programs, code is often reduced to a shiny toy. I'
The musician Zoë Keating (who I admire) has written a very transparent, and a little sad, post about the decision she needs to make about YouTube: They were nice and took time to explain everything clearly to me, but the message was firm: I have to decide. I need to
In the weeds on something that needs to be finished, so regretfully I need to stay in the office.
Photo by Tantek; reposting because Instagram's embed codes make life difficult and require a bunch of JavaScript.
happy
This is a summarized version of my talk at Hacks and Hackers tonight at Matter in San Francisco. This last summer, Alberto Guzman, a hairdresser in New York, uploaded a picture of him and his husband sharing a kiss on their wedding day. He tagged it with the hashtag #happy,